Mice transgenic for KitV620A: Recapitulation of piebaldism but not progressive depigmentation seen in humans with this mutation

Journal of Investigative Dermatology

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1111-1118

  Tosaki, Hiroko ^a   Kunisada, Takahiro ^a   Motohashi, Tsutomu ^a   Aoki, Hitomi ^a   Yoshida, Hisahiro ^b   Kitajima, Yasuo ^a  

^a GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; STEM CELL FACTOR RECEPTOR; VALINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT DISORDER; CELL MATURATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPIGMENTATION; DISEASE COURSE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; HAIR COLOR; HUMAN; MELANOCYTE; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C KIT; PIEBALDISM; PIGMENT CELL; PIGMENT DISORDER; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTO ONCOGENE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STEM CELL; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; HAIR COLOR; HUMANS; MAST CELLS; MELANOCYTES; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PIEBALDISM; PIGMENTATION DISORDERS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-KIT; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SKIN PIGMENTATION; STEM CELLS; ZINC SULFATE;

EID: 33646139670     PISSN: 0022202X     EISSN: 15231747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700173     Document Type: Article

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